A 20-year Swedish study of 30,000 women found that more sunlight exposure cut heart disease risk. Sunlight triggers the body to produce beta-endorphin, which may protect the heart, and melanin, which causes tanning.
In 2016, there was a study of 30,000 women in Sweden, you know, the fair skinned country. They looked at them for 20 years. So this is a pretty good study. Lots of people, lots of time. And they said more sunlight equals less heart disease. Hard stop. Remember when I said my biggest risk is cardiovascular? I need sunshine. UV light, you know, from sunlight in combination with the other colors, like infrared and red that's in the sun, makes something called pomc, which is a beta endorphin, and it makes melanin, which is where you get your tan from, and that helps to explain this effect.
